Whatnot

Product Manager, Video Platform

Whatnot

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇺🇸 United States • California, New York, Washington

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Salary

💰 $240,000 - $275,000 per year

Job Level

SeniorLead

Tech Stack

Spring

About the role

  • Own the end-to-end product roadmap for the video platform, from ingestion and encoding to playback and seller tooling
  • Own the infrastructure, UX, and developer surface area enabling thousands of sellers to go live and millions of users to watch
  • Define and execute against SLAs for quality, reliability, and latency
  • Partner closely with engineering, design, infrastructure, and creator-facing teams to scale low-latency video systems and evolve broadcast and viewing experience
  • Collaborate with infrastructure, client, and ML teams to optimize video delivery and viewer experience
  • Drive integrations with interactive features (e.g., chat, auctions, overlays) to deepen engagement
  • Partner with sellers and internal teams to understand pain points and translate them into scalable video solutions
  • Establish product metrics and experimentation frameworks to validate performance and user impact

Requirements

  • 8+ years of product management experience
  • 2+ years working on video, streaming, or infrastructure-heavy products
  • Proven ability to ship complex, technical systems at scale
  • Strong technical fluency—comfortable navigating tradeoffs in encoding, protocols, and CDN design
  • Exceptional collaboration and communication skills across disciplines and levels
  • Passion for small business, live video, and building novel consumer experiences
  • Team members must be within commuting distance of San Francisco, CA; New York, NY; Seattle, WA; or Los Angeles, CA hubs
  • Employers ask about legal authorization to work in the United States and visa sponsorship